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Senate Committee to Consider Bipartisan Bill Protecting Special Education
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee has scheduled a markup for Thursday, July 30 to vote on an unprecedented bipartisan agreement that prohibits the transfer of certain offices and functions of the Department of Education (ED) to other...
House Sends Budget Bills to Senate and Departs for August Recess
Last week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) led the House through two votes that tee up federal funding discussions after the August recess. The first is passage of a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that will extend federal appropriations funding -for...
86 House Dems Demand Halt to OSERS and OCR Move to HHS and DOJ
Eighty-six House Democrats sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) urging a halt to its planned transfer of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office for Civil...
ED Rescinds Guidelines for Discrimination in Vocational Education Programs
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) has rescinded its 1979 Guidelines for Eliminating Discrimination and Denial of Services in Vocational Education Programs, which established compliance and monitoring requirements for federally funded vocational education programs....
New Report Details Rapid Increase in Use of School Vouchers
The Children’s Equity Project (CEP) has published The Data and Policy Landscapes of Education Vouchers: Inequitable Opportunity and the Unprecedented Shift in Public Education Dollars. The report examines the evolution and current state of education voucher programs,...
AR: This private school had students scrub floors and attack a fellow classmate. The state still funds it
ProPublica Delta Institute joined a surge of new private schools in Arkansas, mirroring a national proliferation. New schools are opening at a fast clip as state legislatures set aside more public money for parents to spend at private schools, without meaningful...
CA: LAUSD special ed classes were meant to be smaller this fall. Teachers are worried it won’t happen
LAist Los Angeles Unified special education teachers and parents are bracing for another year of large classes when the new school year begins, despite a first-ever limit the union negotiated this spring. With booming special education enrollment, teachers say the...
NY: New York City invests $67.5 million in special education for preschoolers
19th News Preschoolers with disabilities in New York City will gain access to an unprecedented set of programs and services thanks to a major expansion in special education announced Tuesday by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New York City Public Schools Chancellor Kamar...
COPAA and Partners Demand Information and Transparency from the Department of Education
As millions of students prepare to return to school, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) still hasn't explained how it will protect students' civil rights and special education rights after announcing plans to transfer major responsibilities to other federal...
NCLD Leads Lawsuit to Protect Special Education Research Funding
Protect Democracy and Jacobson Lawyers Group have filed a lawsuit on behalf of the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), the Massachusetts Teachers Association, and other organizations challenging actions by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the...
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